autosuggestive

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au·to·sug·ges·tion

(ô′tō-səg-jĕs′chən)

n. Psychology

The process by which a person induces self-acceptance of an opinion, belief, or plan of action.

au′to·sug·gest′ v.

au′to·sug·gest′i·bil′i·ty (-ə-bĭl′ĭ-tē) n.

au′to·sug·gest′i·ble adj.

au′to·sug·ges′tive (-tĭv) adj.

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autosuggestive

adj → autosuggestiv

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References in periodicals archive ?

Genau gesagt hatte die Akklamation zunachst autosuggestive Funktion, durch die sich die Mitglieder des volkischen Kollektivs personliches Engagement bei der Findung politischer Entscheidungen vorgaukeln und damit ihre eigene Ohnmacht verdrangen konnten.

Zur Rhetorik des neurechten Ideologen Alain de Benoist

Rudolf's pursuit symbolically embraces the Habsburg ambition to hegemony, although it may not have been free of wishful autosuggestive thinking.

The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance

He is a loafer--he spends his time sitting, fretting, and repeating obsessively to himself "I'm so busy" in an autosuggestive manner.